The market has been a little nuts over the past week, as evidenced by these stats

The market has been a little nuts over the past week, as evidenced by these stats

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, the market has been a little nuts over the past week. After wrapping up their worst week since 2011, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and its major index peers plummeted out of the gate, with the blue-chip barometer dropping more than 1,000 points (and hitting a new annual low) at its intraday bottom. That said, here are some interesting market stats:

After more than doubling last week -- the biggest weekly percentage gain of the modern era -- the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) skyrocketed to territory not charted since early 2009, reflecting widespread fear. "Early action in SPX options, which are used to calculate VIX, was so chaotic that quotes were either zero or so wide that they were unusable in the calculation," reported Trade-Alert's Henry Schwartz.